Brownstein's Quotes & Sayings
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I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself. —
Carrie Brownstein

We want our parents to be the norm from which we deviate. —
Carrie Brownstein

The inexplicable is its own form of freedom. Belonging is not a form of restriction. We can't name the feeling but we can sing along. —
Carrie Brownstein

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself. —
Carrie Brownstein

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity. —
Carrie Brownstein

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind. —
Carrie Brownstein

I was a sprinter - there were no long-term goals, —
Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty. —
Carrie Brownstein

They were like really loud librarians. And as the audience, you better shut the hell up because you're in the library of rock right now. When —
Carrie Brownstein

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways. —
Carrie Brownstein

to be a fan is to know that loving trumps being beloved. —
Carrie Brownstein

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range. —
Carrie Brownstein

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss. —
Carrie Brownstein

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever. —
Carrie Brownstein

There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash. —
Carrie Brownstein

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly. —
Carrie Brownstein

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy. —
Carrie Brownstein

Sometimes I think that the best you can ever feel in a photo shoot is like a sexy clown. —
Carrie Brownstein

People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in. —
Carrie Brownstein

Yet I felt it was unfair to be labeled when I had yet to find a label for myself, and when binary, fixed identities held no meaning or safety for me. —
Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved. —
Carrie Brownstein

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music. —
Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty. —
Carrie Brownstein

Books grounded me, helped me to feel less alone. —
Carrie Brownstein

I have no desire to play music unless I need music. —
Carrie Brownstein

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world. —
Carrie Brownstein

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it. —
Carrie Brownstein

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that. —
Carrie Brownstein

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring. —
Carrie Brownstein

I don't want to mislead people. —
Carrie Brownstein

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music. —
Carrie Brownstein

We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It's —
Carrie Brownstein

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable. —
Carrie Brownstein

At that age I thought apartments were built specifically to house the single or the newly single, a divorce dormitory of sorts. —
Carrie Brownstein

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. —
Carrie Brownstein

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you. —
Carrie Brownstein

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared. —
Carrie Brownstein
Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own. —
Tama Janowitz

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects. —
Carrie Brownstein

These new bands sound like Gang of Four - if Gang of Four sucked. —
Carrie Brownstein

I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface. —
Carrie Brownstein

I need a template of a template —
Carrie Brownstein

I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times. —
Carrie Brownstein

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend. —
Carrie Brownstein

To become a fan of something, to open and change, is a move of deliberate optimism, curiosity, and enthusiasm. —
Carrie Brownstein

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music. —
Carrie Brownstein

I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect. —
Carrie Brownstein

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating. —
Carrie Brownstein

(Like a lot of middle-class kids, I needed my punk rock and rebellion underwritten by my parents.) —
Carrie Brownstein

I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting. —
Carrie Brownstein

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary. —
Carrie Brownstein

The notion of "female" should be so sprawling and complex that it becomes divorced from gender itself. —
Carrie Brownstein

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. —
Carrie Brownstein

There is a direness in the construction of safety, in the telling of theretofore untold stories. —
Carrie Brownstein

It was about knowing you were going to be underestimated by everyone and then punishing them for those very thoughts. —
Carrie Brownstein

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce. —
Carrie Brownstein

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain. —
Carrie Brownstein

Plus, it seemed inconceivable to give someone money for a job we were capable of doing. —
Carrie Brownstein